On June 19-20, 2018 UIIN will bring three of its Professional Development Workshops to London. Benefit from this unique opportunity and combine your conference experience with a 1 1/2 day course on Behaviourial Change, Strategic Industry Partnerships and Entrepreneurial Universities. Deepen your knowledge, gain new skills and find solutions to be applied in your home institutions through these interactive workshops.

Based on research and practice these experienced workshop moderators will share their knowledge and experience from higher education and industry. You can register for these professional development courses through the registration form.

Behaviourial Change WorkshopJune 19-20, 2018

How do you make change happen? This is a key question in many higher education institutions, since they are challenged to redefine their institutional responsibilities, purpose, and way of working. This task is passed on to key staff internally, leaving many stakeholders in higher education with the challenge to finding the right approach towards realizing behavioural change.

This two-day workshop provides higher education staff with the theories and practical tools necessary to facilitate change at their institution. Drawing on research from behavioural sciences (psychology and behavioural economics), you will acquire basic knowledge on human behaviour (e.g. irrationality and cognitive biases) and create nudges for behavioural insights based interventions. Through interactive exercises with the Nudge Development Toolkit, we will help you understand and positively stimulate the behaviour of your most important stakeholders (academic staff, students, management).

Creating Strategic Industry PartnershipsJune 19-20, 2018

This workshop gives you a unique opportunity to learn how to better manage your strategic university-industry partnerships. The aim is to gain insights in some of the building blocks of these partnerships, share experience and highlight the practical implications for your work that you can take home to improve your partnerships with industry and/or university.

In the face of increasing global competition and an increase pace of change, universities are under greater pressure to contribute more heavily to their region. To achieve this, universities are not only being charged with the responsibility to educate and support entrepreneurial activity, but also become more entrepreneurial organisations themselves. However, making this shift is extremely challenging, a strategic approach and commitment and strong university leadership.

Underpinned by extensive research this workshop explores how universities transition towards more entrepreneurial, innovative and externally connected institutions. Drawing on European but also global experience in research and practice, you will learn how to overcome key institutional barriers, implement crucial supporting mechanisms and embed your institution with a more entrepreneurial culture. Using more than 100 case studies including cases from entrepreneurial universities and concepts such as the University Twente, Technical University of Munich and TeamAcademy you will get first-hand insights into the strategies and approaches taken by these institutions.